The RMG presents exhibitions selected from both their Permanent Collection as well as circulating exhibitions. In doing this the RMG strives to tell the continuing story of Modern and Contemporary Canadian art.

Dana Claxton is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. In this new body of work, the artist combines Lakota/Sioux bead work and images of Canadian holiday/road trips particularily campers set in…

“Contemporary” art is an ever-moving target. What was contemporary in 1960 is now considered historic. For the purposes of this exhibition, we have defined contemporary as works of art from the past thirty years. Of its collection of over 4600 works, that makes just over 670 works from 1987-2017. A consistent theme that has emerged…

Andil Gosine moved to Oshawa, from Trinidad, at the age of 14. His formative teen years in the city are revisited in these works, in which he both shares his personal desires and vulnerabilities, and exposes the enduring impact of struggles he and his family experienced. Told as an “autobiography in flora,” the exhibition is…

Opening and artist talk: Sunday, February 11th, 1-3pm Oshawa based artist, Grant Cole is drawn to the formality of everyday life depicted in the Thomas Bouckley Collection of historical photographs. The Bouckley Collection is a visual history of Oshawa that focuses on significant events, people and place. While Cole’s work typically explores his own personal…

The first public appearance of what would become Painters Eleven occurred when seven of the artists showed their work at the Simpson’s department store in Toronto in October, 1953. The concept of an exhibition of abstract art and home furnishing was the idea of William Ronald, a commercial artist working at Simpson’s and his colleague,…

Tours: Thursdays 5-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-4pm. Free, drop-in. Opening reception: Friday, February 2, 7-10pm Imagine, if you will, that two artists while exploring a second-hand bookstore in downtown Toronto, come upon an old battered copy of James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. While idly flipping though it they discover…

Dana Claxton is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. In this new body of work, the artist combines Lakota/Sioux bead work and images of Canadian holiday/road trips particularily campers set in…

“Contemporary” art is an ever-moving target. What was contemporary in 1960 is now considered historic. For the purposes of this exhibition, we have defined contemporary as works of art from the past thirty years. Of its collection of over 4600 works, that makes just over 670 works from 1987-2017. A consistent theme that has emerged…

Andil Gosine moved to Oshawa, from Trinidad, at the age of 14. His formative teen years in the city are revisited in these works, in which he both shares his personal desires and vulnerabilities, and exposes the enduring impact of struggles he and his family experienced. Told as an “autobiography in flora,” the exhibition is…

Opening and artist talk: Sunday, February 11th, 1-3pm Oshawa based artist, Grant Cole is drawn to the formality of everyday life depicted in the Thomas Bouckley Collection of historical photographs. The Bouckley Collection is a visual history of Oshawa that focuses on significant events, people and place. While Cole’s work typically explores his own personal…

The first public appearance of what would become Painters Eleven occurred when seven of the artists showed their work at the Simpson’s department store in Toronto in October, 1953. The concept of an exhibition of abstract art and home furnishing was the idea of William Ronald, a commercial artist working at Simpson’s and his colleague,…

Tours: Thursdays 5-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-4pm. Free, drop-in. Opening reception: Friday, February 2, 7-10pm Imagine, if you will, that two artists while exploring a second-hand bookstore in downtown Toronto, come upon an old battered copy of James Joyce’s A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. While idly flipping though it they discover…

Inspired by a 2014 residency in Paris, Jenn E Norton draws upon historic art nouveau design to create a performative installation in which ornamental elements and animistic motifs of the era transform the space. Disjunctively positioning the luxurious tendrils and filigree imagery in an unadorned space through mediated perspectives, Norton merges the virtual and physical…

The Oshawa Art Association was established in 1967 and has grown to 250 member artists. The annual Juried Art Exhibition held at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery attracts talented artists from all over the Durham Region eager to display their art work. Approximately 80 artists will submit 150 works of art, of which 75 pieces will…

What does home mean to you? A new, community-led and informed exhibition looks to explore this. Home can be many things – a feeling, place, person – whatever the case, there’s no place like home. Members of the community are invited to participate in this exhibition by hashtagging photos that reflect what home means to…

Alison Humphrey, Ruth Cuthand, Elaine whittaker, Ho Tam, Stephen Andrews, Abraham Anghik Ruben, Kim Morgan A hundred years ago, when World War I was winding down and peace was right around the corner, a new strain of influenza swept the world, killing more people than the war. The 1918 Spanish Influenza is considered the deadliest…

Opening reception: Friday, October 5, 7-10pm Inaabiwin is kinship. Light travelling, illuminating as a flow of energy, igniting a space within a deeper sense of our selves. Through Indigenous worldview, we embody a relational approach to understanding and interacting with the world around us. This allows us to engage more deeply through complex relationships with…

Inspired by a 2014 residency in Paris, Jenn E Norton draws upon historic art nouveau design to create a performative installation in which ornamental elements and animistic motifs of the era transform the space. Disjunctively positioning the luxurious tendrils and filigree imagery in an unadorned space through mediated perspectives, Norton merges the virtual and physical…

The Oshawa Art Association was established in 1967 and has grown to 250 member artists. The annual Juried Art Exhibition held at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery attracts talented artists from all over the Durham Region eager to display their art work. Approximately 80 artists will submit 150 works of art, of which 75 pieces will…

What does home mean to you? A new, community-led and informed exhibition looks to explore this. Home can be many things – a feeling, place, person – whatever the case, there’s no place like home. Members of the community are invited to participate in this exhibition by hashtagging photos that reflect what home means to…

Alison Humphrey, Ruth Cuthand, Elaine whittaker, Ho Tam, Stephen Andrews, Abraham Anghik Ruben, Kim Morgan A hundred years ago, when World War I was winding down and peace was right around the corner, a new strain of influenza swept the world, killing more people than the war. The 1918 Spanish Influenza is considered the deadliest…

Opening reception: Friday, October 5, 7-10pm Inaabiwin is kinship. Light travelling, illuminating as a flow of energy, igniting a space within a deeper sense of our selves. Through Indigenous worldview, we embody a relational approach to understanding and interacting with the world around us. This allows us to engage more deeply through complex relationships with…

Gallery A

Opportunities for artist-driven initiatives

The goal of Gallery A and The Art Lab is to foster and support a thriving arts community. Programs provide accessible opportunities for artists and arts communities to present and discuss artwork, collaborate, share ideas and be inspired.

Painters 11

The RMG proudly holds Canada's largest collection of works by Painters Eleven, primarily as a result of significant donations to the permanent collection by Alexandra Luke. At least eleven of these works are on display at all times in our Painters Eleven gallery.